some damn good IPA's out there

[Peruvian]

Just met Peruvian for a beer a Great Rhythm which was super cool...always nice to meet a mag for the first time! We had the Stratabis. It is a strong grapefruit initial taste and the kinda earthy afterwards. Honestly didn't taste anything like the first time I had it so I went home an cracked a can. Apparently, well clearly, my head was in a different place when I first tried it. I blame the weed. Everything seems to be better with weed [emoji41] Still, I do like it, but it's not way up the list. On the other hand, it's now my wife's favorite. So I guess I'm winning.

Right back at you. Next time we will have to have a few beers.

BBCo Reflected in Symmetry on tap tonight was much appreciated. I don’t remember seeing it in cans.

[Doremite]

My thirsty buddy tells me this brewery is one to watch

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Heard great things! Impressions?

[FussyDutchman]

BBCo Reflected in Symmetry on tap tonight was much appreciated. I don’t remember seeing it in cans.

Very recent can addition which I have yet to try but was on my agenda for tomorrow since I am down to 1 can each of Elaborate and Uncanny.

[dookeyXXX]

Very heavy East Coast slant to this thread.

Also, how close are all y'all to some of these breweries?

One of my favorites, Moonraker, which only sells its cans at the brewery, is a minimum 3 hour round trip and I don't do it very often in the winter as the main thoroughfare, Hwy 80, can be a cluster-fuck with Bay Area tourists once the snow starts flying.

Ditto for Fieldwork, which has a taproom in Sacramento, which is more akin to a minimum 5-hour round trip.

Another of my favorites, Revision in Sparks (city next to Reno) is much closer to me, but is still a 90-minute round trip (if I just went straight to the brewery and then back home). I usually stretch that out into a day trip in conjunction with shopping (Costco/Trader Joes/Whole Foods/Grocery Outlet/Winco/used books+records, etc.) and seeing a movie or a show or having dinner with friends.

So, are the bulk of you just walking around the proverbial corner to grab all these crafty beers or are you setting aside travel days to score your favorites?

[Peruvian]

Very heavy East Coast slant to this thread.

Also, how close are all y'all to some of these breweries?

...

So, are the bulk of you just walking around the proverbial corner to grab all these crafty beers or are you setting aside travel days to score your favorites?

Buttah has said it many times and most of us can confirm that many of these are gas station beers in Vermont. Meaning you can literally find them in the cooler of your local gas station.

Other than that, if I’m traveling through a town with a good brewery I’ll try to make time for a stop. I’m not a beer tourist though so I don’t generally make special trips.

[prsboogie]

Very heavy East Coast slant to this thread.

Also, how close are all y'all to some of these breweries?

One of my favorites, Moonraker, which only sells its cans at the brewery, is a minimum 3 hour round trip and I don't do it very often in the winter as the main thoroughfare, Hwy 80, can be a cluster-fuck with Bay Area tourists once the snow starts flying.

Ditto for Fieldwork, which has a taproom in Sacramento, which is more akin to a minimum 5-hour round trip.

Another of my favorites, Revision in Sparks (city next to Reno) is much closer to me, but is still a 90-minute round trip (if I just went straight to the brewery and then back home). I usually stretch that out into a day trip in conjunction with shopping (Costco/Trader Joes/Whole Foods/Grocery Outlet/Winco/used books+records, etc.) and seeing a movie or a show or having dinner with friends.

So, are the bulk of you just walking around the proverbial corner to grab all these crafty beers or are you setting aside travel days to score your favorites?

I have to say the majority of the EC'ers are within an hour of most breweries or the local gas station where they can be purchased! I have roughly 15 breweries within 1hr ~ 1 15 minutes of home

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[Self Jupiter]

Heard great things! Impressions?

Buddy sent me this pic, I haven’t tried it, unfortunately. He was real into it.

[dookeyXXX]

Buttah has said it many times and most of us confirm that many of many of these are gas station beers in Vermont. Meaning you can literally find them in the cooler of your local gas station.

Damn.

Y'all got some high faluting gas stations in Vermont.

I guess I will start checking my gas stations and give y'all an update (but I can, with great certainty, tell you now that that 99.9% of the gas stations in my area will only have Bud, Bud Lite, Coors, Coors Light, and maybe a Sierra Nevada or two, along with Michelada tall boys...)



Most of the breweries I dig (Revision, Moonraker, Fieldwork, Hen House, Almanac, Temescal) you can only get the cans at the brewery. They sell out so fast that they can't sell to local liquor stores or gas stations.

Will post some pics as I begin ticking off the local gas stations so we can compare/contrast Cali gas station beer selections vs Vermont gas station beer selections

[Self Jupiter]

Very heavy East Coast slant to this thread.

Also, how close are all y'all to some of these breweries?

One of my favorites, Moonraker, which only sells its cans at the brewery, is a minimum 3 hour round trip and I don't do it very often in the winter as the main thoroughfare, Hwy 80, can be a cluster-fuck with Bay Area tourists once the snow starts flying.

Ditto for Fieldwork, which has a taproom in Sacramento, which is more akin to a minimum 5-hour round trip.

Another of my favorites, Revision in Sparks (city next to Reno) is much closer to me, but is still a 90-minute round trip (if I just went straight to the brewery and then back home). I usually stretch that out into a day trip in conjunction with shopping (Costco/Trader Joes/Whole Foods/Grocery Outlet/Winco/used books+records, etc.) and seeing a movie or a show or having dinner with friends.

So, are the bulk of you just walking around the proverbial corner to grab all these crafty beers or are you setting aside travel days to score your favorites?

Please keep posting, ecrc gotta know what to grab when we’re in Tahoe [emoji41]

ETA there is a craft beer store in Incline, IIRC, that you’re probably already aware of.. I think it’s brewforia as I check out their website. Found some cool stuff there last March.

[Binky]

Golden Age, indeed

[dookeyXXX]

Please keep posting, ecrc gotta know what to grab when we’re in Tahoe [emoji41]

ETA there is a craft beer store in Incline, IIRC, that you’re probably already aware of.. I think it’s brewforia as I check out their website. Found some cool stuff there last March.

Yeah, Brewforia.
I visited it when they first opened and was not impressed with their selection. Went back I think one other time and didn't find anything I was interested in (I am hella boring in that I only drink IPAs). I have not been back as it's a bit of a trek from Truckee and I don't get that way very often, either in the winter or the summer.

We have Zander's Market in Truckee, which usually has a solid selection and rotates radically (you never know what they will have from week-to-week). We also have New Moon Natural Foods, which sells singles. They usually have a good selection, but their turnover is slow (i.e. when I was in last week they had beers stamped from June and July!...I live by the 28 days rule as much as possible and then 3 months from canning is my absolute limit. Anything over that I won't buy).

Locally I have 4 breweries in Truckee, all of which are within a few miles of home (technically one is a taproom, but the brewery is in Incline). Of the 4, only 3 of them can. But I'm not the hugest fan of any of them. Each of them have a few beers I like, but those are mostly on tap.

Alibi Ale is probably the most consistent of the 4 and they also can the most and seem to have the best distribution. They have been heavy on Saisons, Porters, Sours, and Farm Ales for the most part, but have started to creep back into the realm of IPAs, many of which are solid (they had a "Ryedaho IPA" a few weeks ago that was killer). I know the owner (I work with his wife) so we geek over beers about once a month.


Reno supposedly has something in the neighborhood of 13 breweries.
I've only been to a handful.
Revision is my go-to.
Brasserie St. James has some solid German-styled beers and 2 summers ago they had some solid hazes on tap.
10Torr cans an IPA dubbed "Haze Wagon" but it's a West Coast-styled Hazy (imho). Not bad.
Great Basin is the oldest brewery in Nevada (I believe), but I am not a fan of their beers.
Have yet to hit up the rest.

Carson City has 1 brewery that I am aware of: Shoe Tree. Have not hit it up yet, but I really enjoy their collab with Revision which is called "Disco Ninja".

South Lake Tahoe I think has at least 3 breweries, but I have not been to a single one yet.

As you can see, I have been slacking and have my work cut out for me!



I didn't even get into all the breweries "down the hill" in Auburn, Loomis, Rocklin, and Sacramento, either!

[Self Jupiter]

Thanks for the detailed response DK. I went to Brewforia once, last year, but I found some nice east coast offerings, with a heavy concentration of NYCish area brews for whatever reason- I recall Decadent, Evil Twin off the top of my head.

[Peruvian]

Picked this up at the brewery when I was in Portsmouth earlier this week.

Tartness from cranberries gives it a light sourness but that’s offset by the juiciness of the orange peel and hops.

[Peruvian]

Riding the line between pineapple and pinecone.

[buttahflake]

Allen Brothers, exit 5 i91. Heading into ski country. Fill the tank, grab some fresh apple cider donuts , walk around the counter to the right side of the registers, heading toward the garden center. Beer Nirvana. BBC, Foley Bros, Frost, Upper Pass, Lawson’s, Lost Nation, always fresh and always stocked with the goods.

[Todd Zander]

what happened to ten bends? only saw them for 3-4 months and then dissappeared

[dookeyXXX]

Moonraker Brewing
Auburn, CA

Not usually a fan of the DIPAs and IIPAs, but this one isn't as rich (heavy) as some others I've had.
Nice, mellow fruit forward (kinda on the mango tip) flavor with a subtle hop finish.
Very drinkable.

[shroom]

My girlfriend brought a treehouse gift package this weekend to bribe my friends before she moves back here next month. Anybody need any bribing?Attachment 254808

quoted for follow through

appreciate the hook-up, mang

[Tele 'til You're Smelly]

Just tried my first "Brut IPA"- they add an enzyme to ferment every last bit of sugar, making it "dry" like Brut Champagne. Strong hop nose, moderate hop bitterness (mild for an IPA). This one is 5.7 ABV, some are more:



I like it but there's really no reason to include the term "India" in these new pale ale styles though (except marketing)

[dookeyXXX]

This joint resides comfortably between the N/E haze craze and W/C juicyness with just the right amount of hop blast...

Unpasturized, so a bit of a hassle to transport from the brewery to the homestead, but worth it.

Straight outta Nevada City, CA

[Self Jupiter]

^this speaks to me

[buttahflake]

Show, born on dates, if possible, on those western beverages. Just curious. I’m taking a hiatus from beer, day five. Already lost 3lbs. DIPA’s are not good for the waistline! I’ll be back, will lurk for the time being.
Keep on, keeping on.

[dookeyXXX]

Show, born on dates, if possible, on those western beverages. Just curious. I’m taking a hiatus from beer, day five. Already lost 3lbs. DIPA’s are not good for the waistline! I’ll be back, will lurk for the time being.
Keep on, keeping on.

OOC, why would you be curious about born on dates, what with being from NH and all?

A lot of the beers I dig are in rotation at the breweries in terms of canning (i.e. they can several batches of them throughout the year).

That Clouds of Jupiter I probably scored back in July when I was down in Nevada City seeing a movie (I drank it that same week).
The Holy Hermit was also from earlier this year (again, drunk within weeks of me scoring it).


At least out here every brewery varies on where they place the BOD. Some stamp it on the bottom of the can, others on the lip of the rim, others actually have a special spot for it (Hen House, for example). And quite a few don't even bother (which irks me...I won't buy a beer if the BOD is more than a month old).

At any rate, many of the brews I've been posting recently I drank earlier this summer and still have the cans lying around.



PS
None of you N/E folks are posting BOD, so why do I "have" to?


PPS:
Just drank 2/3 of a bottle of "Castaway" IPA from Kona Brewing. What a complete bottle of dreck that was (I flushed the remaining 1/3 down the sink...hope it doesn't kill the fish where my waste waters comes out!)

[FussyDutchman]

Show, born on dates, if possible, on those western beverages. Just curious.

I was just at the biggest local bev shop and they had several ipa's/dipa's from Revision out of NV that I almost grabbed, until I checked the dates 9/28, passed. I've had a few of their beers previously that were very good but the ability to get local beers often 2 days old I have to make it more of a point to check dates on out of staters before buying.

[glademaster]

I'm ready for transparent, bitter IPA's to make a bit of a comeback. I'm sick of 2/3 of the IPA out there looking like someone poured some pineapple juice and cum into a VitaMix and blended it for 15 seconds. There, I said it. I like the occasional hazy beer, but the shit has gone too far. I want an adult beverage, not a fucking fruit cocktail.